Articles and Reviews

A sampling of articles about the book Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America, from The Margins’ Naeem Mohaemen, Hyphen Magazine‘s S. Nadia Hussain, the New York Daily News‘ Erica Pearson, and the New York Times‘ Sam Roberts. ————————————– New York Times – India Ink Blog A Conversation With: Author and Filmmaker …

Bengali Harlem & the Lost Histories of South Asian America

Order Today: Indiebound | Bookshop.org In the final years of the nineteenth century, small groups of Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island every summer, bags heavy with embroidered silks from their home villages in Bengal. The American demand for “Oriental goods” took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey’s beach boardwalks into the …